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Log in error

RDellimmagine — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:25:44 GMT

There were several outages of VMware's authentication application over the weekend, so that is the cause of the error. I don't have any more details, except that the appropriate engineers in IT worked on it over the weekend. Thanks for reporting this. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

ESXi installation on P965 and P35 chipset based hardware

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:57:58 GMT

If you run lspci -p, does the module show up for that device. In the below example on a whitebox of mine I added the changes to pci.ids and simple.map for an Intel 82556DC card, and ESXi then sees it correctly, but the module doesn't get loaded properly for it.

/mod # lspci -p
Bus:Sl.F Vend:Dvid Subv:Subd ISA/irq/Vec P M Module Name
Spawned bus
00:00.00 8086:29c0 8086:5044 V
00:01.00 8086:29c1 0000:0000 255/ /0x81 A V
00:03.00 8086:29c4 8086:5044 11/ 11/0x81 A V
00:25.00 8086:294c 8086:0001 9/ 9/0x89 A V vmnic1
00:26.00 8086:2937 8086:5044 10/ 10/0x91 A V usb-uhci
00:26.01 8086:2938 8086:5044 11/ 11/0x99 B V usb-uhci
00:26.02 8086:2939 8086:5044 9/ 9/0xa1 C V usb-uhci
00:26.07 8086:293c 8086:5044 9/ 9/0xa1 C V ehci-hcd
00:27.00 8086:293e 8086:3001 10/ 10/0xa9 A V
00:28.00 8086:2940 0000:0000 255/ /0xa1 A V
00:28.01 8086:2942 0000:0000 255/ /0x89 B V
00:28.02 8086:2944 0000:0000 255/ /0x91 C V
00:28.03 8086:2946 0000:0000 255/ /0xb1 D V
00:28.04 8086:2948 0000:0000 255/ /0xa1 A V
00:29.00 8086:2934 8086:5044 11/ 11/0xb9 A V usb-uhci
00:29.01 8086:2935 8086:5044 11/ 11/0xb1 B V usb-uhci
00:29.02 8086:2936 8086:5044 10/ 10/0x91 C V usb-uhci
00:29.07 8086:293a 8086:5044 11/ 11/0xb9 A V ehci-hcd
00:30.00 8086:244e 0000:0000 007 V
00:31.00 8086:2916 8086:5044 V
00:31.02 8086:2920 8086:5044 11/ 11/0x99 A V ata_piix vmhba0
00:31.03 8086:2930 8086:5044 10/ / B V
00:31.05 8086:2926 8086:5044 11/ 11/0x99 A V ata_piix vmhba1
01:00.00 10de:01d3 1682:227e 11/ / A V
03:00.00 11ab:6101 11ab:6101 9/ 9/0xa1 A V
05:00.00 8086:107d 8086:1084 11/ 11/0xb1 A V e1000 vmnic0
07:03.00 104c:8023 8086:5044 11/ 11/0xb1 A V
/mod #

Forum erratic today

johnhc — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:55:01 GMT

RDellimmagine, I understand that when I reply to a thread, I will be an e-mail when it is updated but I did not recognize any of the subjects for which I received e-mails and definitely did not respond to them. When I set my preferences to all 'No', I continued to get erroneous e-mails (perhaps the watches were already placed.) I did get the notification of your update to this thread just now.

Thanks again, John.

Host and Guest Systems:
Windows XP Pro x64 Edition;
VMware Server 2.0.0RC1, Build 101586

Server 2.0 Beta 2 expires on July 15, 2008

jitterysquid — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:17:42 GMT

Never mind. I am the world's biggest idiot. I had both the Beta 2 and RC1 tarballs exploded in similar paths. I was continually re-installing the Beta 2 server.

I must go to my shame closet and hide now.

Well, I was caught unawares and my Server 2.0 Beta 2 installation (on linux) expired. Now I seem to be well and truly hosed. I ran the 2.0RC1 installer over my existing installation and it worked, but I can't start any VMs because it says the license has expired. So I ran the uninstaller, then destroyed all vestiges (/etc/vmware, /usr/lib/vmware, /var/run/vmware, etc, etc). I started from scratch, installed vmware, added my existing VM to the inventory. Still no luck. I get an "unknown error" in the web gui and the vmware.log proclaims that I have an expired version. I've tried creating new VMs, no joy there either.

Is there any way out of this pit? I'm using the serial number I got when I downloaded 2.0RC1. Is there a new one somewhere?

Thanks.

Here's the message in the VM's vmware.log:

vmx| http://msg.License.product.expired This product has expired.
vmx| Be sure that your host machine's date and time are set correctly.
vmx| There is a more recent version available at the VMware Web site: "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4".

Message was edited by: jitterysquid

Login sessions do not stick

continuum — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:20:18 GMT

lost another post because I had to login again - two hours after a fresh login

___________________________________

description of vmx-parameters: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Login session expires during post - reply lost

continuum — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:22:45 GMT

A problem that can not be reproduced can be ignored as well

___________________________________

description of vmx-parameters: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html
VMware-liveCD: http://sanbarrow.com/moa.html

Out of the Office

RDellimmagine — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:51:38 GMT

The software filters out most of the auto-reply (out of the office) emails, but sometimes they get through. It's a nice feature to be able to reply to a watch notification email via email (rather than going to the site), so I don't want to turn off that feature just because a few auto-reply emails accidentally get through.

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Forum System Errors

RDellimmagine — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:49:59 GMT

No posts were lost. We have never had any data loss as far as I can remember. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

VMware Server Community does not exist?

RDellimmagine — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:36:29 GMT

See Re: System error.

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

VMTN forum errors are back?

Peter_vm — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:19:03 GMT

Just got this one:

Already read threads turn dark blue again

Peter_vm — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:39:40 GMT

This problem reoccurred again today.

Unread Private Messages are nowhere to be found

Peter_vm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:54:10 GMT

Allright, now I see them. Looks that indicators were completely out of synch from content. At least for one hour.

What happened to VMware Server 2.0 Beta discussion forum?

Peter_vm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:55:43 GMT

Confirmed. It is working now.
Thanks.

System Error on post

Peter_vm — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:57:38 GMT

System Error
We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system. If you are a system administrator please click "more details" below for more information about this error.

More Details
Status Code: 500
Exception Type: null
Error Message:
Request URI: /post.jspa
Stack Trace:
com.jivesoftware.community.impl.DbForumMessage.prepareInsertIntoDb(DbForumMessage.java:1964)
com.jivesoftware.community.impl.DbForumThread.addMessage(DbForumThread.java:550)
com.jivesoftware.community.proxy.ForumThreadProxy.addMessage(ForumThreadProxy.java:122)
com.jivesoftware.community.action.PostAction.createMessage(PostAction.java:1289)
com.jivesoftware.community.action.PostAction.execute(PostAction.java:1018)
com.jivesoftware.community.action.PostQuestionAction.execute(PostQuestionAction.java:72)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor983.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invokeAction(DefaultActionInvocation.java:358)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invokeActionOnly(DefaultActionInvocation.java:218)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:192)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.FlashInterceptor.intercept(FlashInterceptor.java:40)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.DefaultWorkflowInterceptor.doIntercept(DefaultWorkflowInterceptor.java:175)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doIntercept(ValidationInterceptor.java:115)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveObjectLoaderInterceptor.intercept(JiveObjectLoaderInterceptor.java:55)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.webwork.interceptor.FileUploadInterceptor.intercept(FileUploadInterceptor.java:233)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.I18nInterceptor.intercept(I18nInterceptor.java:151)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveIOCInterceptor.intercept(JiveIOCInterceptor.java:694)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.action.LocaleInterceptor.intercept(LocaleInterceptor.java:71)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveLoginInterceptor.intercept(JiveLoginInterceptor.java:42)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.AuthInterceptor.intercept(AuthInterceptor.java:60)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.AroundInterceptor.intercept(AroundInterceptor.java:31)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.interceptor.ExceptionMappingInterceptor.intercept(ExceptionMappingInterceptor.java:186)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.ModuleCheckInterceptor.intercept(ModuleCheckInterceptor.java:49)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:190)
com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionProxy.execute(DefaultActionProxy.java:116)
com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.DispatcherUtils.serviceAction(DispatcherUtils.java:225)
com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:202)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.webwork.JiveFilterDispatcher.doFilter(JiveFilterDispatcher.java:53)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.SetResponseCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetResponseCharacterEncodingFilter.java:62)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:118)
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:52)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.JiveActionContextCleanUp.doFilter(JiveActionContextCleanUp.java:46)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.PresenceFilter.doFilter(PresenceFilter.java:106)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.SetRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetRequestCharacterEncodingFilter.java:73)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
org.directwebremoting.servlet.DwrWebContextFilter.doFilter(DwrWebContextFilter.java:91)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.upgrade.UpgradeFilter.doFilter(UpgradeFilter.java:43)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.community.web.filter.ApplicationInitializedFilter.doFilter(ApplicationInitializedFilter.java:95)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
com.jivesoftware.base.database.dao.DAOContextCleanUpFilter.doFilter(DAOContextCleanUpFilter.java:32)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:263)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:584)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Message created in community 2424 cannot be added to community 2437

Internal Server Error - Read

Badsah — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:29:10 GMT

Just FYI, here is another error you may encounter when we have a restart:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://communities.vmware.com/.....

The following error was encountered:

* Read Error

The system returned:

(104) Connection reset by peer

An error condition occurred while reading data from the network. Please retry your request.

Your cache administrator is help@vmware.com.
Generated Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:47:31 GMT by proxy.vmware.com (squid/2.5.STABLE14)

Badsah Mukherji
Senior Community Manager, VMware Communities

Internal Server Error - Read

Peter_vm — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:47:29 GMT

It is minor inconvenience indeed. Thank you for explanation.
You are guys on a right track, thank you for a huge improvement to the service reliability.

Service Unavailable error

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:45:06 GMT

I had this error just now but was able to repost it again without any problems.

Service Unavailable - Zero size object
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #15.55ff648.1204602159.21398098

Unscheduled forum maintenanace?

RDellimmagine — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:43:20 GMT

Today's outage was caused by a fibre switch / SAN issue in our colo. The outage was external to the VMware Communities application, and you should expect once again to see the same level of performance and stability you saw earlier this week. Yes, the timing of this problem is unfortunate, but it should not diminish confidence in the improvements we have made.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Gateway Timeout - again

optimizer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:35:56 GMT

PM system is back and glowing again. Thanks.

I haven't tried it, as I generally don't use it, but hopefully it works too.

Site Status?

tlyczko — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:02:11 GMT

RDPetruska wrote: Off-peak, on-peak, any time, any day, it does not matter. Performance has royally sucked from day one of this Jive Clearspace rollout. It is a real shame, as these forums used to be the premier user community around the whole internet... and now they are practically unusable.

If search would at least work better and more like the old search, that would be a major improvement!!
VMware is really taking it on the jaw in so many ways -- why are they doing so many things that practically MILLIONS of people are saying they don't like??
Pricing, forums, channel unresponsiveness, VMware Server 2.0 Beta, etc. etc.
These forums are only one of many things VMware is not executing well.
I loved this forum during Spring 2007 when I was getting started with ESX and learning about what to buy, what to configure, etc. etc.
I don't know that the forums would be as helpful now to someone in a similar position nowadays...the new search is not as easy to use, the famed unresponsiveness that is making even the experts unhappy etc. to the point where many don't want to respond any more...
If all these things don't improve, I think MS and Citrix, have a chance to win out over the long run, even though VMware is still ahead at the moment.
Idea (humorous): Thinking about the election, will VMware become "Hillary Clinton" of virtualization and Citrix et al. the "Barack Obama" of virtualization.
For example, I am really interested in XenServer/XenApp but they don't run on old ca. 2004 x86 server hardware, but VMware does...
Thanks for reading this, Tom (just my $.02)

Answered questions are marked as unread

RDellimmagine — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:08:17 GMT

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but here's my best guess: I read a thread, it's then marked as read, then the original poster marks it as answered (without posting to it, of course), and then it becomes marked as unread for me. Is this what you mean?

In any case, we didn't make any deliberate changes.

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Numerous forum failures on Feb 19, 2008

RDellimmagine — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:24:54 GMT

Sorry, Peter. The outages weren't caused by changes but as a result of the performance issues we are working to address. The one change we made today (load balancer configuration change) was transparent and didn't require downtime. Details of that change and what we are working on are at VMware Communities Performance Update.

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

VMTN down and up?

Peter_vm — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:51:03 GMT

Thanks.
You said a "node restart" not "nodes restart". Does it mean that "running node" cannot serve users while "other node" is down?

Gateway Timeout

RDellimmagine — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:51:26 GMT

See Internal Server Errors - Service Temporarily Unavailable Errors for an explanation.

HTTP 500 - Internal server error

asatoran — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:35:20 GMT

Peter_vm wrote:I'm not "unlucky", I'm just reporting problems.
A new bunch of errors again, very recently.Agreed. I haven't had any 500 errors all last week. (Maybe one or two.) But today in just the past 2 hours, I got more than a dozen so far. (I stopped counting after 10. Ran out of fingers. )

Reset?

Peter_vm — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:45:52 GMT

Thank you, I was just about to ask about it....Please keep posting updates, that helps.

Private e-mail address disclosed

Peter_vm — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:43:51 GMT

oreeh wrote:

We simply have to increase the reply-by-mail filter intelligence.

That's what I meant.

Can we have daily report on forum Resets?

Peter_vm — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:44:47 GMT

Did we have a reset, just a moment ago?
I got an error on reply post, then could not reach forums for 3 minutes.

System Error

osde.info — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:48:56 GMT

me too - got these errors a dozen times this weekend

regards
clive (aka osde.info)
http://www.vizzr.info

System Error

osde.info — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:48:24 GMT

me too - got these errors a dozen times this weekend

regards
clive (aka osde.info)
http://www.vizzr.info

continuous System Error for 5 minutes already

osde.info — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:47:59 GMT

me too - got these errors a dozen times this weekend

regards
clive (aka osde.info)
http://www.vizzr.info

Why VI Client for Windows was included in Linux, but not in Windows package?

jmmarton — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:54:47 GMT

Illaire wrote:
I guess that VMware didn't wanted us to have the VI client running on VMware Server, and it accidentally slipped through. Just a guess...

That's my guess, too, especially since I have yet to see anyone from VMware respond to any of my posts in regards to problems I've experienced with the VI client. Too bad...

Joe

Editing VirtualFloppy is not yet supported.

rbosch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:09:59 GMT

As a workaround, try removing and re-adding the device.

Thanks,
Robert

Request for VMware Server supported host Operating Systems information

bad_flyer — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:56:49 GMT

My mistake. I meant Host OS-es.

Reply button and Rich Text editor - load java errors in IE6

Peter_vm — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:34:45 GMT

I still see this happening. Is this issue being worked on?

Threaded view does not render properly

Peter_vm — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Now "Top Members" shows intermittently again.

VMware Communities Known Issues document not clear

Peter_vm — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:27:51 GMT

Please redesign "VMware Communities Known Issues" document, so we would know clearly which issues has been successfully resolved and which ones are still outstanding.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1000

Please follow a good standard layout as it has been presented in "Release Notes" for other VMware products.

Thank you.

Minimum client requirements for VMTN discussion forum

oreeh — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:13:56 GMT

Another option for quoting is
{quote}quoted text{quote}

The Text Markup Help page
Now don't tell me that you have to read it - in contrast to the old forum the markup is at least (completely) documented.

What's wrong with Server Knowledgebase links?

Peter_vm — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:30:02 GMT

Great!, Thanks.

VMTN Discussions Forums - Reliability

Peter_vm — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:35:43 GMT

Another problem today. No warning, forum just went down for a few hours (with knowledgebase being down also). I guess that's life.
Are forums and knowledgebase systems considered as production systems to VMware? Probably not.

Support for DC Xeon on IBM xSeries 346

Peter_vm — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:39:28 GMT

No problem, we all miscommunicate from time to time.

Best host OS for VMware Workstation

Silvereyes — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:37:35 GMT

That's precisely the point I was trying to make.

Peter's comments about the products having different designs and host requirements while perfectly true are totally irrelevant. I gave ESX server as an example of where I believed that approach had already been used successfully. Nice to have that confirmed BTW.

Unfortunately I'm not a linux guru or I would have a bash at doing this myself. The most important thing it would need to gain general acceptance is a scriptable, (a la winnt.sif), self contained installer/configuration/deployment tool which would built/install the host system and optionally install VMware Workstation as well. Also, I assume you would need VMware's permission before altering the config/built scripts etc.

VMware Workstation 5.5 and Intel Pentium EE 955

Peter_vm — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:00:13 GMT

Anyone using it? Any interesting experience?

If not with Intel EE 955, then maybe with other VT enabled ones (950, 940, 930, 920 or 672, 662 or 7020, 7040)

Linux host - remote access

Peter_vm — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:13:00 GMT

YES! Thats it. I had a great success with x11vnc running on my SUSE 10.0 host.

Now I can securely (password protected) use vncviewer.exe from my Windows remote machine and manage VMware Workstation UI on my Linux host.

All other observations and tips about command line vmrun and vmware-vdiskmanager are usefull too.

Thank you very much!